a rule of thumb

a rule of ˈthumba practical method of doing or measuring sth, usually based on past experience rather than on exact measurement实用的估算方法，经验工作法（常依据经验而非准确测量）

• general pardon
• endocrine gland
• maidener
• droplights
• lister
• strongling
• expurgate
• inhabitable
• drift mobility
• at full stretch
• cyclic magnetization
• full of the the Old Nick
• keeter
• ill-affect
• detractive
• milksopping
• foot-pounds
• serve someone right
• renitences
• revictualed
• manservant
• boves
• olivet
• enslavedness
• give a hostages to fortune
• let your hair down
• Ruhmkorff coil
• kinaesthesis
• sterlingness
• Scotism
• alpha males
• in brief
• blandiloquence
• haphtarah
• dandelion coffee
• archiepiscopaliy
• demulsifiers
• adobos
• furlike
• lobbyings
• diaphragmatic herni
• previtamin
• not...in a hurry
• argands
• sharp-sightednesses
• dees
• Bypass Filters
• Wabenzi
• Cain
• F-ed
• camshafts
• slaty cleavage
• cyno-
• superficies
• double genitive
• step up
• function element
• melanian
• modeling
• breast board
• the Ascension
• pedagogisms
• feathered
• overlive
• conceptual schema
• intercurrence
• epipubes
• overweeningly
• least-action principle
• inverse images
• Yuzovka
• rock mechanics
• talk nineteen to the dozen
• go ape （或〈粗俚, 主北美〉apeshit）
• mixed state
• suck up (to sb)
• as drunk as a a piper
• beauty itself
• morinite
• sounding rocket
• trone system
• plowest
• Kola
• Greenlands
• trade unionist
• talk of the town
• give your all
• hinds
• firmaments
• phosphoenolpyruvic
• scissures
• Ven.
• butterfin gers
• Sinophobia
• undecidedness
• witcheries
• sb's side of a deal / bargain
• sulfhydryl
• pectize,pectising
• asphyxiate